Tomorrow and the day after I'll be working on the dance/theatre performance "Mesnica" in Glej theatre. It's a show for which I made the music and wrote a part of the script, basically the result of endless debating with director Sabina Schwenner and co-author Andreja Kopač. We agreed on two things: 1.We'll only deal with subjects that we actually deal with in our everyday lives, and 2.We will restrain ourselves from giving any moral judgement on these subjects. We quickly found common ground on a number of topics and then tried to distance ourselves from them as much as possible. Once we moved to the theatre we watched the ideas manifest themselves through words, dance, acting and music. We found ourselves in a dark, claustrophobic space we entitled "Mesnica" (Butcher shop) and realized that we're actually acting out the roles of ourselves.

Here's the last report from our Europe tour with Praha Depart, already written in Ljubljana. The last bit of our road trip took us up north, we arrived in the Netherlands after an all night drive trough rainy, desolate French villages that looked like a great place to film a horror flick. Nijmegen is nice town with really friendly people. I'll also never forget eating the hottest curry of my life and breathing fire durning my gig.

The next day we played in Aachen, a venue called Muzikbunker which is just that: an underground labyrinth of venues, practice places, bars and storage rooms. Once we got past the post-apocalyptical hallways we found a warm backstage with lots of delicious food, drink, a shower and internet. And a great audience in front of the stage that really listened intently to our music.

Frankfurt was a story I'll be able to share with people for a while. We played at the Japan Week festival in the center town square in the middle of the afternoon. A Slovenian rapper performing amidst Japanese kitsch, geisha's, samurais, traditional food stands and huge sponsor commercials. In Germany. I played a low volume yet energetic little gig to an 80 year old dancing man and some curious teenagers. I think the organizers had absolutely no idea what musicians they were booking, which became clear durning Praha Depart's show as well. Although the band fit the criteria of actually being from Japan (something that you can't say for N'toko), their noisy and energetic performance completely shocked the technical crew, which immediately lowered the PA sound to a staggering 0, and threatened to turn off the electricity if the band doesn't play quieter. Which they did to the point of being completely inaudible. Fortunately by that time there was a large enough crowd who didn't really care and seemed to enjoy the gig, rushing to the merch stand after the show to meet the singer and get cds or T-shirts. The gig was followed by a really loud open mic karaoke session with drunk German girls screaming Celine Dion songs into the night. All in all it was a first class experience in weirdness that I will never forget, too bizarre to be bad.

The last day of the tour belonged to Berlin and its well respected venue West Germany, which is actually an ex doctors ordination, so you can picture the ambience in the place. It was a real Berlin gig in every sense of the word real and Berlin.

So there we go, the tour is finished. 11 gigs, 7600 kilometers, lots of new friends and experiences. Praha Depart are back home in Japan and I'm also getting back to my everyday routine. And thank god that 6 months of emails, calls, organizing, coordinating and calculating are also over. It's not so easy putting together a joint tour of a Slovenian rapper and Japanese post-punk band. But all the efforts were forgotten after the first chords of the first gig in Ljubljana. The way everything came together, the music, the people's reactions...It just felt like we're doing something really cool, something that I've always wanted to do and couldn't imagine. This tour was maybe the best thing I've experienced in my life as a musician.

So now I'm left with a slightly difficult question to answer: what to do next?

Thanks so much to all the organizers and most of all thanks to Aleš for all his efforts and the superb photos.